[blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

trishs slosser at metrocast.net
Thu Oct 30 13:29:42 UTC 2008 

By hear I mean NH., if not just this single elementary school.

> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Date sent: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 22:07:04 -0600
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>Where is here?
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "trishs" <slosser at metrocast.net
>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 3:11 PM
>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


>> I'm so glad about that.  Here, the kids can't have writing on
>> their back pockets, either.  Uniforms for every one! Anyone?
>> I'd say "Be yourself on your own time.  Right now you're hear to
>> learn what I'm teaching.  Take the pearcings out, get your
>> uniform on, or go to the Principal's office.  Wow!  What kind of
>> frinkin' natzi am I?

>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>Date sent: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 17:04:46 -0600
>>>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>>>I guess our dress code teaches morals.  the girls cannot wear
>> shorts, skirts
>>>or dresses that are shorter than their longest finger.  they
>> can't wear
>>>shirts that are not collared and the top button can be undone and
>> no V necks
>>>of any kind or anything that has spaghetti or no sleeves.  no
>> baggy pants or
>>>skin tight either.  Alot of parents don't agree with the dress
>> code for
>>>various reasons.  No flip flops, they are called unsafe, but they
>> are allowed
>>>to wear sandles as long as they have a back.  No outragious hair
>> dos and no
>>>wild make-up, nothing that distracts others from learning.  V
>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com
>>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:48 PM
>>>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


>>>> Unfortunately you have a point there.  I just don't want the
>> school to
>>>> teach
>>>> morals and values.  I have no problem with them teaching
>> manners.  I know
>>>> most of the stuff schools are teaching is because parents are
>> lacking in
>>>> their roles as teachers.  I'd like to take those parents by the
>> throat and
>>>> tell them that I wouldn't have to bother with teaching your kids
>> about
>>>> just
>>>> plain respect for others if they would just use common sense and
>> teach the
>>>> children how to get along with folks.  I love how some parents
>> don't want
>>>> the school to teach things they think they should learn at home
>> but then
>>>> the
>>>> parents think they can learn everything through osmosis.
>>>> What happened to, "If you get in trouble at school, you'll be in
>> twice as
>>>> much when you get home."  It still works on today's children.
>> I've a
>>>> son's
>>>> behavior that can prove it.
>>>> Barbara


>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> From: "Jo Elizabeth Pinto" <jopinto at pcdesk.net
>>>> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 10:39 AM
>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>>>>> My sister teaches kindergarten.  I'm sure she would agree that
>> most
>>>>> in-service days are essentially wasted.  However, parents, as
>> well as
>>>>> teachers, are tough to deal with.  My sister had one student in
>> her class
>>>>> who was going around kicking the other kids.  She asked his
>> parents to
>>>>> quit letting him wear cowboy boots to school before he really
>> hurt
>>>>> somebody, and they said his behavior was her fault because she
>> wasn't
>>>>> keeping the little brat busy enough, or challenging him enough.
>> Another
>>>>> time, a group of parents got mad at her for asking the students
>> each to
>>>>> put a chair up on the tables as they were leaving for the day.
>> The
>>>>> parents said that was the janitor's job, and their children
>> weren't
>>>>> growing up to be janitors.  My sister got marked down on a
>> year-end
>>>>> evaluation for making the kids say "please" and "thank you" in
>> her
>>>>> classroom, because some parents said that teaching manners
>> wasn't up to
>>>>> her and whether their kids said "please" and "thank you" was a
>> personal
>>>>> decision.  She said to go ahead and mark her down every year
>> then,
>>>>> because
>>>>> kids needed to learn some social graces, and she didn't want to
>> have a
>>>>> classroom full of monkeys.  But that's the kind of stuff she
>> deals with
>>>>> in
>>>>> public school.

>>>>> Jo Elizabeth

>>>>> It is easy--terribly easy--to shake a man's faith in himself.
>> To take
>>>>> advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.  Take
>> care of
>>>>> what you are doing.  Take care.--George Bernard Shaw in
>> "Candide"
>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>> From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 10:45 PM
>>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


>>>>>> this is why my niece stopped being a teacher.  she said too many
>> parents
>>>>>> and the private school body expected her to teach the children
>> manners,
>>>>>> how to use a tissue to blow noses and the other stuff you
>> mentioned.  As
>>>>>> far as the inservice days, i always wondered what in the world
>> they
>>>>>> learn
>>>>>> every Wednesday, "their inservice day." v
>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>> From: "Barbara Hammel" <poetlori8 at msn.com
>>>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 9:05 PM
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


>>>>>>> Just look at how much time the teachers spend learning mostly
>> worthless
>>>>>>> things during inservice time that is during the school day when
>> the
>>>>>>> children
>>>>>>> should be at school.  Also look at some of the things they're
>> teaching
>>>>>>> instead of reading, writing and arithmetic.  For goodness sake,
>> why are
>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>> children learning about political correctness and ethics and
>> morals?
>>>>>>> Isn't
>>>>>>> teaching morals and ethics our job as a parent?  First and
>> foremost, I
>>>>>>> want
>>>>>>> the school to help me make my child knowledgeable.  I don't want
>> them
>>>>>>> teaching my child how to be a citizen of the world.
>>>>>>> I'll get off my soapbox before I offend even more people than
>> I've
>>>>>>> already
>>>>>>> offended so far.  Sorry in advance,it's just what I think.
>>>>>>> |Barbara


>>>>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>>>>> From: "trishs" <slosser at metrocast.net
>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 3:41 PM
>>>>>>> To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>>>> Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>>>>>>>> Hard to believe that this country ranks last in education!

>>>>>>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>>>From: "Veronica Smith" <madison_tewe at spinn.net
>>>>>>>>>To: "NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>>>>>>Date sent: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:06:09 -0600
>>>>>>>>>Subject: Re: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!

>>>>>>>>>Congratulations on your first teacher conference.  I am weird, I
>>>>>>>> really love
>>>>>>>>>going and findout what kinds of stuff the kids are doing.  when i
>>>>>>>> used to
>>>>>>>>>volunteer in Gab's class I used to see what they were doing from
>>>>>>>> week to
>>>>>>>>>week.  This is the first year the teacher didn't need or want me
>>>>>>>> in the
>>>>>>>>>class, so next week we're going to the parent teacher conference
>>>>>>>> and I can't
>>>>>>>>>wait to see what's happening.  I know that Gab is doing well,
>>>>>>>> bringing home
>>>>>>>>>90's and 100's on her spelling tests.  Boy they had big words for
>>>>>>>> third
>>>>>>>>>graders today- excitability, gingerbread, generation, celebrate,
>>>>>>>> forceps,
>>>>>>>>>circular, centimeter, there is more, but ican't remember the
>>>>>>>> list.  V
>>>>>>>>>----- Original Message -----
>>>>>>>>>From: "Eileen" <eileenlevin at comcast.net
>>>>>>>>>To: "'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'" <blparent at nfbnet.org
>>>>>>>>>Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2008 5:41 PM
>>>>>>>>>Subject: [blparent] wow kindergarten has changed!


>>>>>>>>>>I just had my first parent teacher conference for kindergarten
>>>>>>>> and I am
>>>>>>>>>> in shock! The teacher sat for ten minutes just showing us all
>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>> material the class
>>>>>>>>>> has covered in the first 4 weeks of class.  They are expected to
>>>>>>>> know all
>>>>>>>>>> the letter names and sounds, rhyming,  write their name, and
>>>>>>>> other
>>>>>>>>>> things that
>>>>>>>>>> I can't even remember now.

>>>>>>>>>> Each child is working on a monthly calendar,  personal essays
>>>>>>>> and they
>>>>>>>>>> not only discuss activities they form sentences about it as a
>>>>>>>> group on
>>>>>>>>>> the board.

>>>>>>>>>> Wow! When I was working with Asher on learning to read I had no
>>>>>>>> idea
>>>>>>>>>> that he would be using all those skills  immediately.

>>>>>>>>>> All the preschool told me was that he needed to work on lower
>>>>>>>> case
>>>>>>>>>> letters so I went out and bought a set of lowercase letter tiles
>>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>>>>> office depo.  We
>>>>>>>>>> used the tiles to make words and play junior scrabble.

>>>>>>>>>> When I was a kid, if I covered the entire alphabet in
>>>>>>>> kindergarten it
>>>>>>>>>> was a major achievement.  phew
>>>>>>>>>> Eileen


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